Tolerance of homosexuality has increased in nearly all German states since the fall of the Wall 25 years ago, but acceptance of immigrants who keep their traditions has declined, according to a study published on Monday.
The divide between Germans in the former West and East even extends to teeth. Despite lagging behind in wealth and employment indicators, eastern Germans top the tables for dental hygiene.
The official view of everyday life in socialist East Germany was beaming children and happy farmers rather than grey concrete and queues - as is shown in a new exhibition of official colour photos from the GDR.
Supermarket Aldi and carmaker Volkswagen allegedly used East German forced labour during the Cold War. A report broadcast on Tuesday evening also said the communist regime forced prisoners to donate blood to sell to the West.
Fascists have failed in their attempt to claim the phrase 'Wir sind das Volk', famously used during the 1989 East German demonstrations which led to the collapse of the communist government.
Emigration from the former Communist states of East Germany has finally ended, 23 years after reunification. The slowly improving economy is behind the fall in people moving to the west, a report released on Wednesday found.
Germany has long accepted that 137 people died trying to cross the Berlin Wall, but new research emerged on Friday that a young father drowned in the river Spree, unnoticed for 40 years.
Germany has come a long way in the 23 years since reunification, yet deep-seated differences between the east and west still remain. On German Unity Day we ask how united is the country really?
An American professor has found that Thursday's October 3rd national holiday is a palindrome - it reads the same backwards as it does forwards. Germans will have to wait another thousand years before this happens again.
Politicians expressed concern Sunday and called for light to be shed on a report that West Germany conducted systematic doping in sports in the 1970s backed by the government.
Angela Merkel praised on Monday the bravery of protesters who took part in demonstrations against the Communist East German government sixty years ago – which was put down by tanks, prompting an uprising.
Western drug companies tested pharmaceuticals on more than 50,000 people in the former communist East Germany, often without the knowledge of patients, several of whom died, <i>Der Spiegel</i> reported on Sunday.
The share of east Germans with an extreme right wing political mentality has exploded over the last two years, with nearly one in six now thinking like a neo-Nazi, new figures show.
As Germany marks the 23rd anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Germans from the former east are being held back by their own glass ceiling, a leading politician claimed on Friday.
Senior citizens in Germany have seen a fifth of their buying power disappear since 2000, with the elderly in the former East Germany losing the most, new data shows.
Old East German prefabricated apartment blocks, with their drab concrete exterior and low ceilings might not seem a classic investment choice, but foreign investors have been clamouring to buy them, new figures show.
A disproportionate number of German soldiers killed in Afghanistan come from eastern Germany or immigrant backgrounds, according to a newspaper report.
About half of young Germans are unsure whether the Nazi state was a dictatorship – and even more are not sure whether the socialist East German regime was one, a new study shows.
The German army needs recruits from wealthy southern areas of the country as well as the poorer, eastern regions, the country’s defence minister said at the weekend.
East German political prisoners were not only making furniture for Ikea but also sewing bedclothes for West German companies such as Quelle and Neckermann, according to new claims in Friday's <i>Handelsblatt</i> newspaper.
As Ikea investigates claims that East German prisoners were forced to make its furniture in the 1980s, allegations emerged on Thursday that Cuban prisoners were also made to build the furniture giant’s products in the 1980s.
The former East Germany is officially one of least religious places on the planet, with more than half of people living there saying they do not believe in God.
Piled-up, forgotten and gathering dust, 23,000 artworks from the former East Germany fill a vast warehouse 90 kilometres (56 miles) from Berlin, testimony to an oppressive past. AFP's Yannick Pasquet reports.
East German communist leader Erich Honecker had a difficult marriage with his wife Margot, new intelligence reports reveal, with both partners having affairs.
More than two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall the former headquarters of East Germany’s feared secret police, the Stasi, opened its doors to the public following an €11 million restoration project.
